TY - JOUR
T1 - The spatial distribution of pancreatic islets follows a universal power law
JF - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
JO - Proc Biol Sci
SP - 129
LP - 131
M3 - 10.1098/rspb.1996.0020
VL - 263
IS - 1366
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Y1 - 1996/01/22
UR - http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/263/1366/129.abstract
N2 - In a previous report we quantified the apparently complex and irregular distribution of pancreatic islets in the guinea pig by showing that they formed a set of cluster or correlation dimension approximately 2.5. Here we show that this distribution holds in a wide range of mammalian species and through ontogenetic development in the guinea pig. These results strongly suggest that islet formation follows an iterative or fractal rule which is universal among mammals.
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